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by darkpuma 8y ago
This is not the particular source I recall, but is related: Kavka, G. S. (1978). Some Paradoxes of Deterrence. The Journal of Philosophy, 75(6), 285. doi:10.2307/2025707 ( https://sci-hub.tw/10.2307/2025707 )
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Yes but used in such a role, there would be little that's special about it. Nuclear armed torpedoes and short range missiles aren't new. What's special about KANYON is specifically it's range and payload (but frankly
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Call it a less dumb Pascal's Wager of sorts. The possibility that they still exist is high enough that it's only rational to tread lightly under the assumption that they exist.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
I can't provide you with a good source for this at the moment, but it's my understanding that during the Cold War a team of US ethicists determined that the most ethical direction to point nuclear weapons was at major population c
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by darkpuma 8y ago
As I understand it, the so called KANYON/Poseidon nuclear torpedo is likely a real project, albeit with somewhat exaggerated capabilities. The Project 09852 / Belgorod submarine is certainly real, and there is some reason to belie
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by darkpuma 8y ago
I don't understand what point you're trying to make. Are you trying to criticize the general public for not caring about Beowulf in "the right way" or are you trying to criticize the media for not caring about Beowulf
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Why should there be homeless if there are toilet cleaning jobs available? (Of course it's not so simple.)
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Swift's essay is commonly assigned reading in American public schools. The sarcasm of the essay is made clear to every middle school student who reads it.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
- "Spiders are not insects." => "fear" Exactly what I expected, and also flat wrong. - "There's a monster under my bed." => "joy" Fascinating.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Yeah, if anything anti-BDS laws is one of those cases where the mainstream right and mainstream-"left" support it, and the "far-right" and "real left" both oppose it (albeit for very different reasons: the far
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by darkpuma 8y ago
> "For much of the world, OpenStreetMap data is considerably more complete than Google Maps." This is particularly true for many not-so-obscure niches, like hiking trails in and around major US cities. Once you stray from ro
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by darkpuma 8y ago
The StreetComplete app makes it fun and easy to contribute to OSM when walking around, by asking you simple questions about your immediate surroundings (how many stories does this building have, is this street one-way at this location, et
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by darkpuma 8y ago
> "Yes, but that is supposing they would not end up the same way had they not played." That's supposing they would wind up with brain damage if they had not played. For most it seems likely to be a net loss, but try exp
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by darkpuma 8y ago
If racist remarks aren't hate speech, then what is?
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Something that's been bugging me, is when did "smart" become an adjective for machines in the first place, and what were the circumstances around this new use of the word? Before "smart phones" and "smart hou
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by darkpuma 8y ago
> "Palatine Boors" He had some pretty nasty things to say about anybody who wasn't an Anglo. https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-04-02-00... > "And since Detachments of
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by darkpuma 8y ago
> "The phrase is a paraphrasing of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.'s opinion in the United States Supreme Court case Schenck v. United States in 1919, which held that the defendant's speech in opposition to the draft d
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Block all javascript, including first party. The article text is all still there and the website is made 'minimalist' by force.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
You're absolutely right. Yet for some reason it seems popular to discount that possibility. Particularly when invoking the thought terminating cliche that is "Hanlon's Razor."
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Sufficiently advanced malice disguises itself as incompetence.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
> "I really do think people have trouble assuming the worst about the intentions of others and are inclined to be trusting." I think you hit the nail on the head. Even on HN, it's not uncommon to see a few comments on
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Measles was never eradicated, you're probably thinking of smallpox. We no longer vaccinate for small pox specifically because it was eradicated.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
The supposed connection between ethical behavior and university degrees is totally spurious. It's a post-hoc justification for blatant class discrimination, plain and simple. I recommend you dig into the life of Jacqueline Cochran
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Many of the best pilots in history had no university degrees. Chuck Yeager famously had none. Jacqueline Cochran had none. Amelia Earhart dropped out of Columbia. Charles Lindbergh dropped out of UW-Madison. Howard Hughes dropped out
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by darkpuma 8y ago
I see what you mean, but I really feel that season 2 in particular did a great job of developing a lot of characters, particularly Zenigata.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
> "I've always assumed that those who don't speak openly about politics don't care or are right wingers" In my experience, people who assume that eventually progress to assuming that those are actually one and
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by darkpuma 8y ago
When I come home, I can have food heated up for me already. It's called a slow cooker. I don't need a 5G radio in my slow cooker for that to work. And what a 5G radio can't do is get the meat balls out of my freezer and
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by darkpuma 8y ago
The stadium has a monopoly on hot dogs and event streaming, so they can gouge you til their heart's content.
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by darkpuma 8y ago
Infrastructure can be wired, and there are only ~260 million registered road vehicles in America (most of which are not fleet vehicles.)
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by darkpuma 8y ago
When hot dogs at sports stadiums cost $10 a pop, why do you think 1080p streams would be cheap?

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